For those of you who need to run classic Mac apps (now that OS X 10.5 has
killed Classic), but still need a locally running Unix/X11, I've been
exploring MachTen and put up some thoughts on how to patch it up to "current
standards." I also ported NCSA Mosaic to it. It actually is just barely
on topic. :)
http://www.floodgap.com/retrotech/machten/
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>
>Problem 1:
>I have two Vax with both with similar problems. One is a 3100 VAXstation-76 and
>the other is a VAX 3100 and both give a keyboard error. Both display a backwards
>"?" and then "VT420 Keyboard Error - 4" -- the 3100-10e shows VT320 error instead.
>The VAXstation has not run as yet, but I have had the 10e running in the past.
>Now both machines display an error. Both machines and peripherals (including the
>VT420 and VT320) were purchased through eBay.
>
Any time I've seen "keyboard error 4", it's been produced by a terminal. In theory,
the terminal could be faulty but so far I've always found that either the keyboard
plugged in to the terminal is faulty or there is nothing plugged in to the terminal
where the keyboard should be.
Problems with a keyboard attached to a VAX 3100 tend to produce much more obscure
error reports including a bunch of hex numbers during the power-on tests.
If you don't have a graphics monitor and intend to use a terminal as the system
console, plug the keyboard into the terminal, not into the VAX. The little switch
at the back of the VAXstation ("S3"?) then needs to be set to the correct position
(it may be already). If this is not done, you can still log on at the terminal once
everything is working but you can't use it for console commands and it will not be
possible to install the operating system from scratch. Once the switch is set
correctly and the terminal cabled up correctly, you should see the output of power-on
tests on the terminal when the VAXstation is switched on.
>
>Problem 2:
>About two years ago I signed up for an openVMS licence. Since then I have been unable
>to get the operating system working or either Montagar or ENCOMPASS to give me little
>more than the time of day. It has been almost 2 years since this started and I have
>tried almost all that I can think of to get it settled. Hopefully you can suggest what
>to do -- I have gone 1 year past the licence renewal and no-one has even contacted me.
>
I had a bit of hassle getting my membership number from my local Decus chapter (it's
probably called something else now) which I had previously joined for free but once I
got that, everything was straightforward. There is no handholding though - you type
the relevant details into a form on the web and the licenses arrive in your email.
Regards
Peter.
I am very interested in a manual for the WO-33A RCA oscilloscope. I saw your write up on internet and would be grateful if you could forward me some information on same.
Keith Regazzoli,
P.O. Box 44,
Greenvale. 4816
Queensland,
Australia
>I've recently got hold of a pair of DECMate IIIs and would like to get
>them up and running with OS/278. Unfortunately they didn't come with any
>media so I'm wondering if anyone knows of a site that has some suitable
>boot images that I can copy onto 5.25" floppies with PUTR
>
http://www.dbit.com/pub/pdp8/images/block/
I was about to post the link to the alt.sys.pdp8 message with the
instructions on how to use these images with putr but it now looks like
google groups now requires you to sign in to view.
I apologies for the extremely off-topic post, but knowing how people
here tend to be packrats... :) .. and generally nice...
I was given a PSOne game console recently. Just the console. Does
anyone have cables & controllers collecting dust? I'm in the New Haven
CT area, and don't have cash available...
Yeah, like I said, it's a long shot of a request. Thanks for humoring me.
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Anyone interested in a "Introductory Brochure and Short Form Catalog"
for the Signetics 2650 microprocessor?
Free except for postage. Hope someone can use it.
thanks
Charles
Whoever bought my Wameco CPU-1 8080A card and QMB-9 "Little Mother"
motherboard, please email me offlist. I found the original manuals for
them if you are interested.
thanks
Charles
